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paid WinTV $35,000 for
coverage.
"And I could provide
you with a copy of that
cheque."
Denying that funding
came from a contractor,
she said the money was
paid from the account to
which members make
their monthly contribu-
tions.
"In COP we have no
big donors. This party is
not owned by any big
donor...We don t even
have any donor more
than $20,000."
She said even if the
party had to sell cakes to
pay its outstanding bills,
it would do so.
Turning the tables on
the former Chaguanas
West MP, she called on
Warner to reveal how he
was funding his media
coverage and advertise-
ments for the by-election.
Also calling on women
in political parties to con-
demn the denigration of
women in politics, she
added: "I am not inter-
ested in any medical
records of Khadijah
Ameen. I am interested
in what she can do for
Chaguanas West."
Referring to Warner s
allegations, Ramadhar
said the COP could not
be bought by anyone.
Recalling that the party
had held corn soup sales
and other activities to
raise funds, he said:
"Please, anybody who
want to make contribu-
tions to us, come, we
need it."
Saying that COP s own
executive members were
falling for "the foolish-
ness," he said: "This is the
time when we must clear
our eyes, minds and our
spirits from all allegations,
rumours and bad talk in
this party."
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Congress of the People
(COP) chairman Carolyn
Seepersad-Bachan says
the party has drained its
accounts to pay for pub-
lic meetings and adver-
tisements in the lead-up
to Monday s by-election
for Chaguanas West
seat.
Both Seepersad-
Bachan and party leader
Prakash Ramadhar have
also dismissed allegations
by Independent Liberal
Party (ILP) interim leader
Jack Warner that a con-
tractor paid for COP s
public meeting and
advertising at Felicity
Hindu School on July 16.
Speaking at a COP
meeting at Gaston Courts,
Chaguanas, on Monday
night, Seepersad-Bachan
reinforced the COP s sup-
port for the People s Part-
nership and its candidate
Khadijah Ameen, who is
going up against Warner.
Asking the crowd if
they heard Warner s
question about how COP
funded its Felicity meet-
ing, she said, "Let me tell
you, we are glad for the
opportunity to go on
record about who paid for
that meeting. The COP
is a party of principle and
we paid that money from
our account.
"We virtually drained
our account."
She said the party had
Carolyn admits election funding costly:
COP accounts
almost drained
KEVON FELMINE
Fishing operations
along the Columbus
Channel were shut
down on Wednesday
after tainted gas caused
fishermen s boats to stall
at sea.
Within hours, however,
a National Petroleum
official was collecting
samples of the gas for lab
testing as upset fisher-
men quarrelled over the
loss of earnings as their
boats remained docked
at the Hope River Fish
Landing Site at La Ruffin,
Moruga.
"They can t go out to
get their daily bread so
all of the boats have to
remain in docks," a clearly
disturbed president of the
Trinidad and Tobago
Unified Fisherfolk, Peter
Glodon, told the T&T
Guardian.
"What really happened
is the fuel we got in the
gas station over the
weekend and as far as
Monday seemed to be
contaminated with some
kind of chemical which
is causing a lot of trouble
in operating our engines.
"All the boats are here
because you cannot use
the gas to go any dis-
tance. It is trouble all the
time. The engines are not
working properly, they
are cutting off. Not only
the boat engines but the
vehicle owners who pur-
chased gasoline at the gas
station have the same
problem. Anytime they
try to accelerate, their
engines are cutting off."
Displaying samples of
the blue and yellow
coloured gas in plastic
bottles, the fishermen
said they believed it was
mixed with "pitch oil."
Glodon said not only
were some 440 fisher-
men and their families
affected by the gas pur-
chased at NP s Gran
Chemin station but also
hundreds of vehicle own-
ers within the commu-
nity.
When the T&T
Guardian visited the sta-
tion on Wednesday it was
closed and residents said
their only other option
was the Unipet station at
St Mary s, Moruga.
"It is the gasoline, the
only type of gasoline they
had in the gas station was
super. The cars that used
the super gas had the
same problem, likewise
the boat engines and that
is our problem," Glodon
said.
"Right now we can t
say that the engines were
damaged but after a peri-
od when you get good
gasoline and it starts to
run, maybe in the next
two or three months we
may see the defects."
Glodon speculated that
it could not be the usual
super gas because he had
never experienced such
a problem in his 60 years
as a fisherman.
"It is very depressing
because a lot of concerns
have come up. If our
engines are damaged
after a short while, who
is going to compensate
us?" he asked.
In a release yesterday,
NP said the station was
a dealer-owned, dealer-
operated station, and that
supply of fuel to the sta-
tion was suspended on
July 15 due to an issue
over the non-payment of
invoices. It said despite
the suspension of deliv-
eries, allegations were
made by locals in the area
that non-NP trucks were
seen delivering fuel to the
station. The Ministry of
Energy and Energy
Affairs, it added, is inves-
tigating these claims.
NP said it was also
investigating the matter
and would take the rel-
evant action.
Tainted gas angers
Moruga fisherfolk
Fisherman Andrew Bristol shows a container of
tainted gas on his boat at the River of Hope on
Wednesday evening. Moruga fishermen claim the
gas is being mixed with other chemicals, causing
their boats to shut down. PHOTO: RISHI RAGOONATH